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Bret Victor is a real visionary in the field, and everyone should check out his website worrydream.com, for his interesting presentations on interactive programming. Saying that, I…

Property law is abysmal in the UK, the fact that the squatters stuck up a sign on the wall naming their rights to occupy, just shows what a joke it is. I dont agree with property b…

Google reviews from 10 months ago, so at least active till then

I have to say, watching this car crash in real time has ironically made me browse reddit more, just to watch the drama unfold. It's the same with twitter, these community sites hav…

It looks like they took a profiler to the training process of today's largest AI models. Firstly it'll be a universal low level software layer, that can run on top of any cloud har…

It's poor thinking on them to only provide a talking interface. I don't think I've encountered that personally, there is always a way to use the keypad - which I will always use an…

Not at all. This means we are no long tying production quality of a game to how much money the developers have access to. It enables real creativity. Right now do you not think the…

It does, once you have the character sheet, you put these together in blender and use them as reference for the 3d model, so everything comes out in proportion and its just grind r…

There is a lot of content in games. The AAA games can have single artists work on one character for the whole game. The author even says it saved him 5 days, and look how small the…

Wait until you hear about DNA

They said this when computers were introduced too, now there's more jobs than ever.

There is a simple explanation for why humans tend to say how things could be 'better', when you ask them how things could be 'different'. It's even one of the core beliefs of buddh…

Also, the core algorithm behind chatGpt, Transformer Neural Nets, was actually built by Google in 2017. They'll be fine

And the engine comes apart after not being in use for a while? Scary

The issue is we have to pre bake decisions into the application, and until the application is literally an AI this is as good as it gets. When building a program 'errors' occur all…

Remember you may consciously focus on the eyes, but the brain is taking in the whole image and importantly context - so the surrounding skin plays a role

Power begets more power.

Sometimes third parties give you json and that's it, in these cases these libraries are useful if being fastest to react is a constraint.

Psychology has always been part of the market, and this event can be explained by Soros' theory of reflexivity - that the stock market leads the fundementals, not the other way aro…

As a .Net developer I've.. never seen people write code at work like this. This looks like a hefty amount of boilerplate to achieve practically nothing. I'm guessing this guy learn…

SQL anyone? High level language, immediate feedback mostly, does the low level optimisation for you, you can performance tune with indices where needed... :)

arnold seems alright

People forget the stock market is just a device to turn money into more money, which creates (and requires) sustained bubbles. There will be a blow off the top from time to time, b…

Thesedays, if it doesnt solve multithreading issues in a novel way, I'm not interested.

China Phase 2..